SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In Power Management, set "switch to power profile" to a power profile 2. observe battery widget not showing the power profile icon OBSERVED RESULT battery widget not showing the power profile icon EXPECTED RESULT Battery widget icon shows current power profile SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux 6.15.6 KDE Plasma Version: KDE Plasma 6.4.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Changing the power profile on the Power Management page in System Settings doesn't change the power profile immediately; rather, it configures the system to switch to that power profile automatically when the power cable is plugged in or unplugged, or when the battery is very low. All of the settings on that page work that way. Basically you're telling them system how you'd like this changes when entering that state. If you want to change the power profile immediately, that's done from the Power and Battery widget in the System Tray.
Thanks for the response :) I didn't mean it needs to change immediately, the icon of the widget does not change when the battery profile changes using the power management feature.
So the power profile actually does change, but the icon in the System Tray doesn't change? Can you attach a screen recording that shows it happening? You can change the power profile from the tray icon's popup to make visually sure that it's actually gotten changed.
Created attachment 183861 [details] icon does not change when charging
As you can see from the recording, the icon does not change. Unrelated- I'm not sure what are those lines at the bottom of the recording. I used spectacle.
That's weird. Three questions: 1. Does it switch when you use the slider in the applet popup to change the power profile? 2. Are you using a custom icon theme? 3. Does the issue reproduce in a new clean user account on the same machine?
1. yes 2. default breeze 3. yes
Well what do you know, I can reproduce it too. I was so fixated on this not being the expected UX that I never even bothered to try it out. And sure enough, it happens just like you say. I'm not sure it's intentional that using the System Settings page to change the power profile of the active power mode should change the active power profile immediately. But given that it does… yeah, the icon should update as well.